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It’s been a while since I did any typing in bluefacedpixie but jwz’s reality call needs as many cross-links for ye-olde-google-backrub as possible. I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it’s true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the […]

..on the shores of the far side of the 2000 decade. A decade review seems to be an invitation for lists; I will try to keep it short and sweet. It seems strange that so much focus was placed on the end of the millennium (Y2K, phew), when the last ten years have been so […]

Business travel is bad for my environmentally friendly hopes. And this doesn’t even count the free bottles in the hotel; *and* I’m not too sure I’m not short counting. And I’ve decided I’m _not_ counting gatorade bottles. But it’s a straight +4 for cups and +4 for bottles since my triumphant 7 and 2 post […]

I’m in the basement surrounded by LCDs and flickering lights. There are no real lights on. Unfortunately the recent trials and tribulations with the house Internet have driven me to this. Since Sunday our usually-pretty-rock-solid Internet has been playing silly buggers. I think it’s the Apple TimeCapsule Airport thing, but I’m not too sure, although […]

At 4pm today Danika called me to check if I was alive. It seems that there was a fatal bike accident a few blocks from our house this morning. As I bike into work most days (and today) Danika had been checking the pictures to see if the bike was mine. I looked at our […]

I didn’t blog this Atlantic article originally, but it keeps coming up in conversation. Read how a journalist deliberately and repeatedly repeats every airport security violation he can. Except without being a real terrorist of course. On another occasion, at LaGuardia, in New York, the transportation-security officer in charge of my secondary screening emptied my […]